A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

Beate Dignas is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Fellow and Tutor of Ancient History at Somerville College. Her research focuses on Greek Religion and the History of Asia Minor. She is the author of Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002) and Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity (2007). She has also edited the collective volumes Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (2012) and Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World (2018).

List of Illustrations
General Editors’ Preface
Introduction
1. Power and Politics
2. Time and Space
3. Media and Technology
4. Knowledge: Science and Education
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History
6. High Culture and Popular Culture
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday
8. Remembering and Forgetting
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index